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Length of Woven Silk
1700–1705
- Medium
- Silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 152.8 × 54.3 cm (60 1/8 × 21 3/8 in.); Repeat: 55.3 × 26.9 cm (22 × 10 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchased with proceeds from the Bonwit Teller Benefit
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Attenuated and stylized floral and leaf forms characterized European dress-silk patterns from about 1695 to 1715. They have become known as “bizarre” silks for their fantastical designs, an amalgamation of Indian, Turkish, and Japanese influences seen through European eyes.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
